{"id":124422,"date":"2021-06-29T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/europe-considering-concepts-for-human-spaceflight"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:22:17","slug":"europe-considering-concepts-for-human-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/europe-considering-concepts-for-human-spaceflight","title":{"rendered":"Europe considering concepts for human spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/europe-considering-concepts-for-human-spaceflight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bumper crop of applications for the ESA\u2019s astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A bumper crop of applications for the European Space Agency\u2019s astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability.<\/p>\n<p>ESA announced June 23 that it received 22589 applications in a solicitation that ended June 18. That\u2019s far more than the 8413 applications it received in the previous astronaut selection round in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving more than 22000 applicants is quite a number,\u201d Josef Aschbacher, ESA director general, said in a press conference about the application figures. \u201cThis is, I would call it, almost a historic moment for us that we have so many applicants that want to become astronauts. From that point of view, I\u2019m more than satisfied. I\u2019m extremely thrilled by these numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bumper crop of applications for the ESA\u2019s astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability. WASHINGTON \u2014 A bumper crop of applications for the European Space Agency\u2019s astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability. ESA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}